Example sentences of "[Wh det] [be] that [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Opinion surveys suffer from various drawbacks , the most important of which is that they reflect opinion and not necessarily behaviour . |
| 2 | We are led to the conclusion that 11a is grammatically but not semantically deviant by the fact that substitutes for bake which normalise the sentence ( e.g. shake , forsake ) , as a class , have no distinctive semantic attributes ( that is to say , members of the class share no characteristic patterns of co-occurrence with other open set elements that differentiate them from non-members ) ; however , they do share a grammatical peculiarity , which is that they form their past participles with — en . |
| 3 | there 's two elements in relation to the air conditioning itself , er spreading viruses , and we take two preventative actions one of which is that we spray all the air conditioning ducts work quarterly with , what 's known , as a virucide and I relate that to the equivalent of sticking a a toilet block in the toilet , it kills all all known airborne germs sort of thing . |
| 4 | no , because the point is that Labour has not changed it 's course , which is recognizing that at the heart of it 's policies we have to show that we know the world has changed , and we 've got a message to women , which is that we know that you are essential in your role in the family , but we know you 're also essential in the economy , |
| 5 | I think has summed up quite well there I think , which , what everyone 's aims is , which is that we want an effective and efficient police force , which everyone has got confidence in to make sure that it protects citizens against crime in this country , and nothing could be , I do n't think anybody who is erm , civilised in this county or this country would want anything different . |
| 6 | Indeed , we make an effort not to use the phrase for a number of reasons , one of which is that we have been unable to figure out what it means ’ . |
| 7 | Now , er , now back to the main theme , which is that you 've become more business-like , in every sense of the word . |
| 8 | Yes , this is , this is , this er Who 's picking up Laura 's point which is that you get all the contractual arrangements er er done , but I mean it does n't mean you ca n't have the ritual , be it dressed with , you know , er a long |
| 9 | I say to the hon. Member for Dagenham what the hon. Member for Orkney and Shetland ( Mr. Wallace ) said about his speech , which is that he made very heavy weather . |
| 10 | ‘ Alcohol did me the greatest favour , which is that it brought me down to earth . |
| 11 | There is , however , a problem with this theoretical account , which is that it depends , as mentioned , on the validity of the efficient market hypothesis , that is , it assumes that the underlying value of the company 's business is accurately reflected in the market price of its shares . |
| 12 | This conception of services has its attractions , not least of which is that it appears to distinguish the output of services from that of manufacturing . |
| 13 | An analysis of the artefact must begin with its most obvious characteristic , which is that it exists as a physically concrete form independent of any individual 's mental image of it . |
| 14 | We thought it would be a good idea to give them a chance straight off to have an opinion , and we set them a nice problem , which was that they put a marble into something and another marble comes out thirty seconds later . |
| 15 | He had a second reason for doing this , which was that he hoped thereby to put pressure on France and Germany to hand over to Spain part of French Morocco . |
| 16 | ‘ Another man-witch , who was sentenced to the galleys for life , said that he had such a pity for the horses which the postillion galloped along the road that he did something to prevent it , which was that he took vervain and said over it the Pater Noster five times and the Ave Maria five times , and then put it on the road so that the horses should cease to run . ’ |
| 17 | Both of these points of contention were symptomatic of the fundamental issue at stake for Washington , which was that it had lost control of events in Cuba and a client state which had been regarded virtually as a part of the American mainland had moved out of the US orbit . |
| 18 | Jill thought a moment then announced her decision , which was that she agreed to keep the secret provided Jennifer riddled out the cinders every morning from then on , instead of taking it in turns . |
| 19 | Some of the girls had been looking forward to this as to the highlight of the trip , but Clara had been dreading it , and for a classic reason , which was that she had nothing nice to wear . |
| 20 | good grief what is that I wonder ? |
| 21 | In Cambridge got something to do with , what was that he said ? |
| 22 | ‘ And what was that you said earlier about Bernard . |
| 23 | ‘ What was that you said ? |
| 24 | ‘ What was that you said of him ? — of Hotspur ? |
| 25 | But er what was that you said love ? |